Will Social Security Be Around When I Retire?

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December 21, 2015

Blank social security checks run through a printer at the U.S. Treasury printing facility in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (William Thomas Cain/Getty Images)

The winter holidays can be a really tough on your wallet, so we thought we'd return to one of our popular personal finance interviews from 2015. It was with two experts: Boston University economics professor Laurence Kotlikoff, and PBS Newshour business and economics correspondent Paul Solman.

They wrote a book along with retirement expert Philip Moeller, called, “Get What’s Yours: The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security.”

Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson spoke with the authors, who share advice from their book.

Editor’s Note: In the federal budget recently signed by President Obama, several changes were made to Social Security benefits that impacted the conversation we originally had with Kotlikoff and Solman. Most significantly, the legislation ended the popular “file-and-suspend” Social Security claiming strategy Kotlikoff and Solman recommended in their book. Read here for some more details. We've updated the audio on this post.

Guests

Laurence Kotlikoff, professor of economics at Boston University. He writes the “Ask Larry” personal finance column for PBS Newshour. He tweets @Kotlikoff.
Paul Solman, business and economics correspondent for PBS Newshour. He tweets @PaulSolman.

This segment aired on December 21, 2015.